Crossover Horror: Stardew Valley, but with Horror Mods

[Main story complete. Working on slice-of-life bonus chapters] At your best friend's recommendation, you bought the hot new game, *Grind Valley*, hoping to experience the simple life of a farmer in a small town, working from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m., and escape the city's 996 work schedule. You couldn't wait to jump into the game But unlike the beautiful scenery and friendly neighbors shown in its promotional art, this place was full of gloomy, terrifying sights. A dilapidated, desolate, ancient and eerie longhouse. When you passed by, you could hear hoarse creaking from inside, sounds that clearly didn't come from anything human. The moon looked as if it came from hell, glowing an ominous blood-red. When players were asleep, it would open its eyes and greedily pry into every aspect of their lives. When you woke in the morning, you found a human head dangling from the mailbox like a balloon, with a card tied beneath it wickedly declaring its love for you... Plants inexplicably turned into spirals. Snail people, once human, crawled through the school. Strange-shaped corpses washed up now and then on the shore outside town... At this point, you could choose: A. Max out your combat stats, because all fear comes from not having enough firepower! B. Log out! Log out right now! You haven't even played for the required amount of time, so demand a refund from the publisher and leave a one-star review. Without a word, you picked up your axe and diligently started chopping down the trees around you. If you want to get rich, chop down trees first. Nobody can stop a farmer from farming! * You finally beat the game in one life and made it out in one piece. You hadn't even had a single peaceful day back in the real world when The white-haired delinquent and the black-haired, squinty-eyed delinquent from the game showed up at your door. They told you that after you left, the town of Black Vortex had descended into utter madness. The maddest of them all was your fiance The terrible, fated curse of the vortex, which made the town repeat the same cycle every hundred years, had gained self-awareness because of your arrival. And on the eve of your wedding, you had abandoned him without a second thought. You slowly typed a question mark. Wait, when did you become the Queen of Urban Legends?! [Reader's Guide] 1. A crossover of Ito-sensei's horror manga and *Jujutsu Kaisen*. 90% goofy everyday life + 10% Japanese horror (probably?). 2. Includes but is not limited to: everyone being drawn to the protagonist, eerie romances, gloomy male ghosts, gloomy female ghosts (real ghosts, no joke). 3. Blurb saved. Revised for the second time on 3/21, then lightly tweaked three times before the story began on 10/13. The core premise is unchanged. 4. Feel free to point out typos. I'll accept writing advice as long as it isn't an insult, but please don't make it about my taste or literary ability. This is JJ, not a literary prize judging panel. If you insist on insulting my literary ability, then you're right. --*Western Classics Crossover, But Horror*-- You played a game called *Nineteenth-Century Aristocratic Fiancée Simulator*. Set in the nineteenth-century West, the game gave you a chance to be reborn and choose a new life if you won over three aristocratic targets. You thought pursuing the three one at a time would be too slow, so you decided to go after all three at once. If you failed, it was game over anyway. You had nothing to lose. [Target One] You are the fiancée of Dorian Gray, heir to the famous Gray family. Your fiance is said to possess peerless beauty that captivates men and women alike. He is the darling of high society and always the center of attention. He doesn't take his crude, destitute fiancee from the countryside seriously at all. To him, you are the sole blemish on his perfect image. Rather than fulfill his marriage contract with you, he would much prefer the ugly wretch to hurry up and die. [Target Two] As a distant, impossibly distant, relative of Roderick Usher, you inherited the House of Usher. The family was steeped in a curse, its members few and far between, and it had long since fallen into ruin. Everything about the family had been buried in the graveyard, including your childhood betrothal to Roderick, which was laid to rest along with Roderick's death. But Roderick didn't seem to see it that way. [Target Three] Knowing Dorian Gray didn't like you, you urgently needed to find a wealthy, powerful replacement. You set your sights on a pale-faced man sitting in a corner at the ball. He looked as if he didn't have long to live, so perhaps you'd soon become a widow and inherit his fortune. What you didn't expect was that he had already noticed you, too. But what he wanted from you wasn't marriage. It was your blood. ** After beating the game in one life, you chose an ordinary world where you could retire. But the world you had carefully picked wasn't as plain and ordinary as you'd imagined. A secret palace slowly rose from beneath the sea. A monster sleeping within whispered beneath the red moon. The boundary between humans and monsters grew impossibly thin, and those closest to you all became unspeakable monsters, watching you hungrily as they prepared to devour and assimilate you. Most importantly, the monsters who had willingly put collars around their necks for you came looking for you. Theme: Love can drive away the darkness